Milford Sound Stories


Freshest shower in all of New Zealand

We got a free ‘Awesome New Zealand’ tour to Milford Sound with the bus ticket we bought and we were very dubious about it but on this occasion it exceeded all our expectations. We were lucky enough to get the front seats on the bus so we could talk to the very informative, funny and interesting driver and, more importantly, we got the best view of th...


Overnight boat on Milford Sound

Sorry everyone that i havent written anything for a couple of weeks - I have been just too busy! But now I am here in Sydney for a couple of days I have time to catch up with what I have been doing. After 4 days in Queenstown we drove on to Milford Sound, which is actually not a sound but a fjord. It is a huge steep-sided valley, now flooded with sea...


Another day another sound and another early start.

The morning started shortly after the night had finished. We rose early but still managed to get on the road a little too late. We had a little under two hours until our boat left Milford Sound and the drive was meant to take 2 hours. We also needed fuel for Starbuck and Ronnie. A trip to the bakery sorted Ronnie out whereas a trip to the BP station wou...


Milford Sound to Fox Glacier

We drove to a place called Te Anau in the morning then from there to Milford Sound. The drive from Te Anau to Milford itself was the most beautiful sceneic drive in the world and we must have stopped about 20 times to take photos. We did a boat tour of the Milford Sound which was really good. It only takes about an hour and a half to sail around it and ...